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Carbonate of Lime—a compound of carbonic acid and
lioift.
Carboniferous—coal bearing : a term applied to a system
of rocks wkich bear coal.
Cetacea—an order of animals, of which the whale is the
type.
Chert—a variety of amorphous quartz, much like flint.
Concretion—a union of particles, forming rounded and oval
bodies.
Conformable—a term applied to strata, which lie parallel
with each other.
Conglomerate—A rock composed of rounded pebbles
formed under water.
Conifera?—trees which bear cones, with naked seeds, as
pines and the (ir.
Cretaceous—belonging to chalk : the name of the system
to which common chalk belongs.
Crustacea—an order of animals which are provided with
a crust or external integument similar to the lobster
and crab.
Dikes, or Dykes—a vein of rock or stony matter, which
has been injected into a fissure, while in a melted
state.
Diluvium—a term which was applied to a stratum, which
was supposed to have been spread over the earth by
the deluge.
Dip—strata, when inclined to the horizon, are said to dip.
Eocene—dawn of the present: a term applied to the old-est
of the tertiary deposits.
Escarpment—the steep side of a hill.
Estuary—the mouth of a river, which is occupied, in part
by fresh, in part by salt, water, or by brackish water.
Faults—the dislocation of strata, by which one side is ele-vated
above the other.

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Carbonate of Lime—a compound of carbonic acid and
lioift.
Carboniferous—coal bearing : a term applied to a system
of rocks wkich bear coal.
Cetacea—an order of animals, of which the whale is the
type.
Chert—a variety of amorphous quartz, much like flint.
Concretion—a union of particles, forming rounded and oval
bodies.
Conformable—a term applied to strata, which lie parallel
with each other.
Conglomerate—A rock composed of rounded pebbles
formed under water.
Conifera?—trees which bear cones, with naked seeds, as
pines and the (ir.
Cretaceous—belonging to chalk : the name of the system
to which common chalk belongs.
Crustacea—an order of animals which are provided with
a crust or external integument similar to the lobster
and crab.
Dikes, or Dykes—a vein of rock or stony matter, which
has been injected into a fissure, while in a melted
state.
Diluvium—a term which was applied to a stratum, which
was supposed to have been spread over the earth by
the deluge.
Dip—strata, when inclined to the horizon, are said to dip.
Eocene—dawn of the present: a term applied to the old-est
of the tertiary deposits.
Escarpment—the steep side of a hill.
Estuary—the mouth of a river, which is occupied, in part
by fresh, in part by salt, water, or by brackish water.
Faults—the dislocation of strata, by which one side is ele-vated
above the other.